RAF Liberator over the Eastern Front
Auton, Jim2010
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Abstract: "At our age, nobody would have allowed us to drive a car, borrow a motorbike or vote, but the Royal Air Force offered us the chance to leave home and fly an aeroplane. So we were hooked."In 1941, Jim Auton enlisted in the wartime RAF as a pupil pilot. After being shipped out to South Africa he was compulsorily switched from pupil pilot to navigator. On learning that Air Bombers, a new category of aircrew, were serving as bomb aimers and co-pilots he opted for that role instead. Eventually he arrived in the south Italian war zone, flying B24 Liberators over dangerous targets such as Munich. Jim was severely wounded, and his flying career ended when he was only 20.
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Large print ed.
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Oxford : Isis, 2010.
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384p ; 23cm.
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ISBN:
07531952169780753195215 (pbk)
Language:
English
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BRN:
460839